Security Incidents for 05/11/07


Baghdad:
#1: While conducting combat security operations in a southern section of the capital, a Multi-National Division – Baghdad patrol was attacked with small arms fire, killing one Soldier May 10.

#2: (update from two wounded) Two mortar bombs killed two people and wounded one in southern Baghdad's Doura district on Thursday, police said

#3: A mortar bomb killed two people and wounded four when it hit a market in Zaafaraniya district in southern Baghdad on Thursday, police said

#4: A U.S. soldier was killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said. One of the wounded soldiers later returned to duty, the military said

#5: A roadside bomb went off near a convoy of sport utility vehicles (SUVs), usually used by foreign contractors, in northern the capital on Friday, an Interior Ministry source said. "An explosive charge detonated near a convoy of four-wheel-drive vehicles, guarded by U.S. Humvees, while passing in the Kadhumiyah neighborhood, burning one of the SUVs," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. It was not clear whether there was any human casualty as the U.S. troops cordoned off the area preventing the Iraqi police from approaching the scene, the source said.

#6: Late on Thursday, another attack targeted U.S. troops when a car bomb parking near the Kahramanah Square in Baghdad's central district of Karradah detonated, the source added. The source could not give out the casualties of the U.S. patrol as the U.S. troops sealed off the area too.

* #7: Suicide bombers ploughed an explosives-laden truck and a car into a pair of police checkpoints in east Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 22 more, a defence official said. The blasts struck outposts protecting bridges and a police station in the mixed but mainly Shiite Zafaraniya district in the southeast of the city, the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Two suicide car bombers struck police checkpoints near bridges in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people. The violence started when a sedan exploded near a bridge as police were checking vehicles waiting to cross. That was followed within minutes by the explosion of a fuel truck at a checkpoint near another bridge, police said. Both bridges spanned the Diyala River, which feeds into the Tigris. The 12 killed included six policemen, police said.

Two suicide car bombers struck checkpoints at Baghdad bridges within minutes of each other Friday, killing at least 23 people and damaging the spans despite increased American efforts to target the insurgent networks planning deadly vehicle attacks

* #8: Baghdad's medicine warehouses went into blaze on Friday, said Iraq's Interior Ministry. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), a ministry source said the warehouses are in western Baghdad and they belong to the Health Ministry. While saying a team consisting of army forces and 15 fire stations are currently battling the fire, he added that the fire started on the warehouses' roofs and quickly spread to their contents. The warehouses' chemical content intensified the blaze, he noted. Eyewitnesses said across from rooftops, they saw the inferno raging in what may be Baghdad's biggest fire.

* #9: At least two civilians were killed and two others wounded when an explosive charge went off on Friday at noon near Khanqin district, 160 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source said.

* #10: At least five people were wounded on Friday when a Katyusha rocket landed into al-Shomokh neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad, a security source said


Diyala Prv:
#1: A Multinational Division-North Soldier died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting combat operations in Diyala province, Thursday.

* #2: Five gunmen were killed on Friday in fierce clashes with U.S. and Iraqi forces in Diala province, a security source said. "A joint force of Iraqi-U.S. troops waged on Friday afternoon a crackdown operation in al-Tahrir neighborhood, south of Baaquba, to hunt down on gunmen of what is called the Islamic State in Iraq armed group," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Najaf:
#1: Unidentified gunmen killed an anti-narcotics police officer in front of his house on Thursday night, a security source in Najaf said on Friday. "The gunmen opened fire at First Lieutenant Thaer al-Issawi in front of his house in the district of Kufa, (10 km) east of Najaf," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Diwaniyah:
#1: An MNC-I Soldier was severely wounded by small arms fire at approximately 5 p.m. Thursday in Diwaniyah. The Soldier was evacuated for treatment at the Coalition hospital in Baghdad but later died of his wounds.

#2: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded five policemen and three other people on Thursday in Diwaniya, police said

#3: An Iraqi army soldier was killed and six policemen wounded when two explosive devices went off near two army and police patrols in Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad, on Thursday night, a security source said.


Basra:
#1: One civilian had injured by IED that was targeting an American convoy in the high way that used only by MNF to carry the logistic equipments 50km west of Basra


Taji:
#1: In one raid early Friday, troops acting on intelligence obtained in previous operations approached a building near Taji, an air base 12 miles north of Baghdad, suspected of housing a car bombing cell responsible for attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S.-led forces, the military said. The troops came under fire from four armed men, whom they killed in a gunbattle, the military said.

* #2: A truck bomb hit a bridge near the town of Taji on the main highway connecting the capital with cities in the north, an Iraqi army source said, adding the attack was followed by a car bomb that killed four Iraqi army soldiers there.


Samarra:
#1: Around afternoon, gunmen killed a brigadier Amar Kareem Khlaf from joint operations office in downtown of Samara


Balad:
* #1: Unknown gunmen on Friday opened fire at a civilian car near Balad town, 70 km north of Baghdad, killing three women and wounding two men onboard, a police source said.


Mosul:
#1: Police found six bodies on Thursday in different districts in Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said

* #2: Two people were killed and two more wounded on Friday in clashes that erupted between Kurdish families from two villages in northeast of Mosul,402 km north of Baghdad, a police source said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen killed one civilian in a drive-by shooting in Kirkuk, police said

#2: Local residents in Kirkuk said they heard three blasts in a U.S. military base in this northern Iraq city on Friday. "Three explosions rocked the base in the military airstrip of Kirkuk, (10 km) west of the city, which is taken by the U.S. and Multi-National Force (MNF) as a base," a local eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Plumes of smoke rose from inside the base where the U.S. forces are stationed since they entered Iraq in 2003," he added.


Touz:
* #1: Unknown gunmen on Friday set fire on five oil tanker trucks carrying petrol to Touz district, near Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source said


Hawija
#1: Police said they found an unidentified bullet-riddled body bearing signs of torture on Friday in Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk

#2: The decapitated head of an officer in the Iraqi military intelligence corps was found in the district of al-Huweija, 70 km southwest of Kirkuk, an official source in the Iraqi police said on Friday.


Tal Afar:
#1: Three civilians were wounded when an explosive charge went off near them on the road leading to Talafar district, western Ninawa province, on Friday, a police official said. The explosive device "was planted on the side of the road linking Talafar and Sinjar districts," Brig. Ibrahim Jassem al-Juburi, the Talafar police chief, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Gunmen killed the deputy mayor of Falluja's municipal council in a drive-by shooting near his house, police said.

#2: U.S. aircraft struck three trucks with mounted anti-aircraft weapons and killed more than 10 insurgents west of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said on Friday. Based on intelligence reports and surveillance of a known meeting location in northeast of Karma area near Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the U.S. forces discovered three trucks, two of which carried mounted anti-aircraft artillery weapons, the military said in a statement. U.S. forces followed the suspected trucks in the area where apack of insurgents emerged from the vehicles and fired on two houses, the statement said, adding that the attack was assessed to be practice for possible future attacks against coalition forces. "A fixed-wing aircraft was called in to destroy the vehicles. One truck with an anti-aircraft weapon and two sedans associated with the trucks were destroyed, killing an estimated 10 to 14 terrorists," the statement said. The two other trucks fled the scene in different directions, but each was destroyed in separate air strike after the insurgents ran away, it added.

* #3: Falluja hospital received on Friday seven unidentified bodies that were found dumped in different parts of Falluja city, 45 km west of Baghdad, a medical source said.




Afghanistan:
#1: The U.S.-led coalition confirmed late Thursday that a battle between U.S. forces and Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan caused civilian casualties and that a joint Afghan-U.S. investigation is under way. "There are confirmed reports of civilian casualties," but it was unclear how many, the statement said. "A joint Afghan and coalition force inquiry is being conducted."

#2: Fresh airstrikes in volatile southern Afghanistan killed 10 Taliban fighters close to where villagers say about 40 civilians died during a battle earlier this week, an official said today. Taliban fighters ambushed a patrol of US-led coalition and Afghan forces near Sangin in Helmand Province yesterday evening, and gunfire and airstrikes killed 10 militants, said Eizatullah Khan, the Sangin District Chief.

#3: A suicide bomber rammed his car into a convoy of foreign troops in southeastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Friday, but there was no immediate word of any casualties, officials said. The troops cordoned off site of the attack which happened on a road in Urgun district of Paktika province, they said.

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a convoy of U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Friday, wounding at least two U.S. soldiers, government and coalition officials said. The troops cordoned off the site of the attack which took place on a road in Urgun district of southeastern Paktika province, provincial officials said. An official for the U.S. military said at least two American soldiers were wounded in the attack.

#4: In a separate incident, four policemen and two more insurgents were killed when fighting erupted late Thursday after a group of the extremist militants attacked a police post, provincial police chief Ali Shah Ahmadi told AFP. "Four police were martyred, two police were wounded and two Taliban bodies were left at the battlefield," Ahmadi said. Four suspects were arrested in a follow-up operation on Friday, he said.


* The DoD is announcing a death that does not appear to have been previously reported by CENTCOM. Sergeant Major Bradly D. Connor, 41, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, died when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle near the town of Al Hillah in Babil Province south of Baghdad on Wednesday, May 9th. He was with the 1st Special Forces Group out of Fort Lewis, WA. According to the press release issued by USASOC, he had just arrived in Iraq in March of 2007 ... for his fourth deployment since 2003. He is survived by his wife and three children.